May 2017

By Joanna Sotiropoulos
Another one.
That was my response to a terrorist attack.
For some reason my humanity has crapped itself, exiting the building. I hate myself for that knee jerk response. I hate myself for opting out of caring because it’s too hard. But the world

By Brittney Rigby and Alicia D’Arcy
Wendy Bacon is many things. Her website’s bio references her times as an academic, investigative journalist, political activist and former Tharunka editor (which included jail-time in the name of anti-censorship). Late last year, she was arrested at a WestConnex protest,

By Lara Robertson
As a small-statured woman who can’t put up much of a fight, I’m unable to walk the streets alone at night, catch a taxi by myself or leave my drink unattended at a bar without feeling nervous. And I have every reason to

By Alexander Biscu
Of course logging is bad, I thought with a mental shrug. Pretty much everyone agrees, right? But this is Australia, not some developing country whose natural resources are being taken advantage of by multinational corporations. When I decided to go on a citizen

By Gloria Demillo
You probably picked up your last K-Zone from Woolies a while ago. But the man who brought you the best kid’s magazine around has now written a dystopian novel.
Year of the Orphan is a gripping story set in a post-apocalyptic Australian Outback. Make

A Short Ficto-critical Piece, Using Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s Creative Process as an Example.
By Rani Singh
DRAFT ONE:
“Lest we forget Manus, Nauru, Syria Palestine.”
The public – yes, including you – would have swept over this. Its syllables, all strung together with barely separating spaces, would dissipate, adjacent